JOB DESCRIPTION

As a not-for-profit organization, Partners HealthCare is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Womens Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care and other health-related entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.

Were focused on a people-first culture for our systems patients and our professional family. Thats why we provide our employees with more ways to achieve their potential. Partners HealthCare is committed to aligning our employees personal aspirations with projects that match their capabilities and creating a culture that empowers our managers to become trusted mentors. We support each member of our team to own their personal developmentand we recognize success at every step.

Partners HealthCare Information Systems (IS) Enterprise Medical Imaging (EMI) is seeking a Team Lead to work with world-leading research departments and investigators to develop machine learning (ML) systems supporting biomedical and clinical research.

To be successful, this individual will appropriately task development assignments to team members to complete complex projects that directly affect patient care and outcomes.

The Team Lead will ideally have: a demonstrable background of ML development using deep learning (classification) tools, extensive development experience in a group environment, significant experience in designing data workflows and interfaces, experience with data (text and images) transformation, and, experience with data management in a health care setting.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Assign projects/tasks to the appropriate development team members and manage successful outcomes, align assignments and outcomes with the priorities of both EMI and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Clinical Data Science leadership, as directed.
Develop/manage documentation, code management policies (code vaulting {Git}), code reviews and general polices enforcing code readability and choice of technologies.
Facilitate and participate in development/design sessions to determine technology choices and approach, lead and govern discussions with researchers, developers, project managers and project owners.
Assist in designing/implementing software for high performance computing systems conventional HPC clusters and new GPU super computers such as the NVidia DGX-1.
Participate in developing clinical scenarios (documentation that defines the ML problem to solve and the desired outcomes) especially the components that relate to technology and development.
Hire and retain staff, facilitate training and development, provide guidance and coaching, complete performance evaluations on schedule and work with Human Resources to enforce organizational policies and procedures.
Establish and create a positive team environment through leadership and mentoring. Works with staff members to develop an individualized professional development path with clear goals and objectives.
Provide the proper supervision, work environment and structure to assure performance and well- being of employees. Provide clear channels of communication, delegation and accountability within the team for effective problem solving.
Use the Partners HealthCare values to govern decisions, actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk, and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Masters degree in biomedical, electrical, computer engineering, or computer science, or equivalent combination of education and experience required
Experience managing developers with common policies for documentation, coding and agile development methodologies
1 year of experience in deep learning classification systems (experience on medical images a major plus)
5 years of programming experience utilizing several of the following environments: PHP, Java, C/C /C#, Python, R, Matlab or similar
5 years mix of development and management of web applications and databases (SQL, Hierarchical, Schema less, etc.)
3 years of experience supporting informatics systems in a biomedical, medical imaging or Healthcare setting a major plus
Experience supporting related components of 3rd-party and open-source applications and analysis tools (Hadoop, R, Matlab, Docker, Caffe, Theano, Tensorflow, etc.)
Systems administration including scripting and automation on Windows and Unix/Linux systems

SKILLS/ABILITIES/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

Excellent project management skills (ability to multitask and prioritize work requirements) with a strong commitment to customer service.
Must be capable of contributing within a team, exhibit a high level of initiative, and have an eagerness to learn new technologies.
Ability to effectively translate business requirements to functional requirements.
Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with diverse, cross functional teams including staff at all levels of the organization including both technical and non-technical personnel.
Exceptional problem solving and negotiation skills.
Ability to lead and facilitate large working sessions with all levels of staff.
Ability to successfully negotiate and collaborate with others of different skill sets, backgrounds and levels within and external to the organization.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Standard office environment with possible local travel to Partners sites.